Men’s 400 IM – 2013 World Championship Trials – as reported by swimswam:
In the men’s 400 IM Tyler Clary looked to be determined not to find himself as the silver medalist for the third time on the weekend, having finished as the bridesmaid in both 200 backstroke and 200 butterfly earlier in the competition. He built a substaintial lead of over two seconds by the end of the first 200 turning in a time of 1:58.72.
That lead was quickly erased by Chase Kalisz who narrowed the gap in the first 50 of the breaststroke and overtook Clary in the second 50 heading into the freestyle with a lead of over a second and a half. Kalisz continued to extend that lead in the final 100 meters winning his first national championship in a time of 4:11.83, a season’s best by two one-hundredths of a second.
Clary was second posting a time of 4:14.62 to stamp his ticket to Worlds, as the men officially earned enough doubles in this race to ensure that all Olympic-event runners-up would qualify for Barcelona. Clary stil has some work to do, though, as he was a whole lot better en route to a third-place finish at the Olympic Trials last year. With his schedule now loaded-up on the 200 fly, 200 back, and 400 IM, we’ll have to see what he goes after in the 200 IM.
Video edited by Coleman Hodges.
is it me or does any else wonder why most of the nbac ‘stud’ swimmers were just as fast or faster at santa clara than at nationals? no big or moderate drops at all.
You’re right. Pethaps they keep the best for Barcelona. The coach knows how to do it.
Taking a chance hoping that…..and didn’t work for Schmitt or Romano!
Men’s 400 IM final
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWVMGBTrmqw
The most exciting thing about Kalisz is that he has so much room to improve. He was immediately 1/2 body length behind on the start of that 400IM, his fly looked average at best, backstroke was a little slow on the turnover, so if he can get that first half of the race down he’ll be set. It’s good to see the GOAT working with him in practice as well.
The day he will go more often in the weight room, he will be very tough to beat. Probable olympic champion in 2016.
Does he even lift, bro?
His fly is terrible. Even our 11 year old said: “Dad, his fly is bad.” His arms are too high on recovery. You would think for all years practicing with Phelps he would have learned better technique.
There is no “right” way to swim, if you were as knowledgeable as you act, you’d know that. A high recovery works for Kalisz. He is a 1:58 200 flyer, that is good by most standards.
It always blows me away how the USA has this never ending flow of talent. The next 3 yrs are going to be very interesting/ exciting.
1. Huge population base.
2. Facilities.
3. Tradition (and knowledge built over the years)
The sport has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the states and we’ve always been a place where top swimmers from around the world come to train. We don’t know everything though, we still swim SCY and continue building those pools all the time so we’ll more than likely never cut over to SCM because of that. In our favor though, we usually have enough sense to not concentrate on the 50’s!
Yeah I think the training techniques and coaching plays a huge part, was great to see South Africas two golds from london, Le clos and van Der burgh came from home grown coaching, historically most South African swimmers go through the us college system, very promising for the future of swimming there.
This anti-50 sentiment doesn’t make sense to me. The int’l governing body for our sport recognizes 50s of stroke as the distinct, uniquely competitive disciplines they are. Lactate thresholds show that the skill set required for world-class 50 speed is physiologically different than 100 speed, especially in long course. Why should the prevailing attitude of the US swimming community condescend to athletes with genetic predispositions for blazing speed over 50 meters (or yards) and, even worse, encourage them to sacrifice these skills and train for races twice as long? If track and field used our WCT qualifying procedures, 200 meter runners couldn’t even run at nationals unless they met the qualifying time for the 400, and the 100 meter dash… Read more »
Because stroke 50s aren’t aren’t the Olympics… Really not quite the conspiracy you make it out to be
Also, don’t compare sports, it completely meaningless
It’s not like the Olympic event schedule is sacred or anything. I’d be pretty surprised if they didn’t add stroke 50s & with 800/1500 for both genders within the next two Olympic cycles.
And it makes plenty of sense to compare swimming to track given what we’re talking about. BTH brought up that swimming 50s is different physiologically than swimming 100s. So why not add events that prioritize those differences? Opponents of stroke 50s using the “it’s too short, there’s no strategy or x or y” would have to use the same arguments to rail against the 100m dash in track, which is pretty much the world’s most glamorous race. (After all, it’s the one you gotta win to… Read more »
by the same logic, where is the 800 IM? what about the poor distance swimmers who are skilled in a broad range of strokes, but are forced to train down for an unnecessarily short race that doesn’t showcase their talent?
why should we discriminate against those butterfliers who have natural endurance and perfect technique for the 400 fly but aren’t tall enough or can’t turn over fast enough to be as talented in a short event like the 200 fly?
I see your point, McGillRocks, but stroke 50s are already contested at the international level. That being the case, it’s ridiculous in my opinion that the swimming community in a country would convince itself that stroke 50s are trivial to the point of not entering their best shots at medals in those events. Shouldn’t a country with the ridiculous depth of talent of the US that values versatility so highly at the individual level strive for two podium finishes in every single race? This is America; we want to win everything, right? I think that conceding podium opportunities in sprints to countries that might underperform in “real” events is as unsportsmanlike as making it difficult for our own sprinters to… Read more »
this year seems to be the year of your talent’s explosions , especially at this meet . Very interesting and promising . Usa is allready stacked with new talents for Barcelona not to mention the ones who will join in the years to come .